2015-09-03, 17:49
Thanks for your thoughts Paul.
As I see it the mods made by Evilhamster are a general improvement rather than a fix just to suit Picard. The introduction of mucisbrainz ID support in Gotham (I think, I have been trawling a lot of historic code to try and understand the current design, rather than reinvent a previously discarded wheel), and the move towards "artistcredits" intenally as well as having a concatonated artist string and a vector as left a few oddities. I suspect more changes were intended (to eventually get rid of the string and vector) but never happened. But that is about what in under the hood, I think that users want is to be able to control what artist description they see, and have Kodi identify artists so their music can be browsed conveniently. The changes help that.
Any improvement to the music library will have to be backwards compatible (although a re-scan will probably be inevitable), and not Picard specific (I have only used it for test purposes, mostly use Mp3tag).
Totally get what you say about tagging and flexibilty. Not going to shoe-horn anything
Of course we will never please everyone. But the initial hurdle is getting started, especially without an experienced Kodi dev to oversee and authorise changes. No one wants to risk breaking the music library, and the devs don't have the spare capacity to check a load of mods from some new upstart (no matter how well meaning). Changes need to be small and obvious, but that isn't going to get us new functionality. Tricky!
As I see it the mods made by Evilhamster are a general improvement rather than a fix just to suit Picard. The introduction of mucisbrainz ID support in Gotham (I think, I have been trawling a lot of historic code to try and understand the current design, rather than reinvent a previously discarded wheel), and the move towards "artistcredits" intenally as well as having a concatonated artist string and a vector as left a few oddities. I suspect more changes were intended (to eventually get rid of the string and vector) but never happened. But that is about what in under the hood, I think that users want is to be able to control what artist description they see, and have Kodi identify artists so their music can be browsed conveniently. The changes help that.
Any improvement to the music library will have to be backwards compatible (although a re-scan will probably be inevitable), and not Picard specific (I have only used it for test purposes, mostly use Mp3tag).
Totally get what you say about tagging and flexibilty. Not going to shoe-horn anything
Of course we will never please everyone. But the initial hurdle is getting started, especially without an experienced Kodi dev to oversee and authorise changes. No one wants to risk breaking the music library, and the devs don't have the spare capacity to check a load of mods from some new upstart (no matter how well meaning). Changes need to be small and obvious, but that isn't going to get us new functionality. Tricky!
